cupidity

Example Sentences

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The dribbling of classic works into the public domain every year on Jan. 1 may be gratifying, but it also serves to underscore the stupidity and cupidity of our convoluted copyright system.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2022

The commission explained that public health policies would “protect one set of human beings from being the victims of disease and death through the selfish cupidity of others.”

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2020

Some of them are accurately described as such, but all are so described because of prudence in the service of cupidity.

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2019

Their cupidity quickly becomes an existential threat to all of the people and things that define the city, condemning them to a subterranean life at the bottom of the void.

From The Verge • Sep. 1, 2018

The coins in his hand, he stared at her, helpless before his own cupidity.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks